The Sun. — London, England, 1808-06-15 00:00:00

- • . elleBoally mateige and conduct their coneerea than into the, bands of an Honourable NTemher to pen the Ring s•Prodor. As no piablic grotend had been sent ; bat, under the consideration that nich an laidlor this alteration of the nee istitetioo of the appeal would bring down . 01, the eteeplainants 'the office, he coeild not agree to the 'notion. If Offi- vengeance of the Admiralty, it was abandoned. cers of. the Navy could choose their own Pro&ors, The Navy must therefdre wait tbr better days e . and they would be exPosed to much ultiMate incOnvee. he trusted that his Honourable and Gallant Friend -nience, which 'they are now guarded against by would live to see those days arrive, 'and his wishes having the whole of their interest* entrtnted to one be accomplished. tespeCeible person. In a great many cas. 10, thtr, The.Csieeceeeoe of the EXcHRQUEu observed; King's Prottor saved the individual from this ulti- that when a motion of this kind was sithmined to mate inconvenience, by declining to prosecute any the consideration of the. House, it :attend be under ulterior proceedings, where there was np prospe& of the impression of the fag that delay. had taken place, Anal 'success. Besides, from the multiplicity of' the and justice watethereby greatly barred, and' indivi. cases that are examined in the King's Pro&or's duals', rights injured, and that such delays arose in Office, there was much better information and ads the office of the King's Proetor. No such thing, how vice to be found there for the captors. Not having ever, is dOne, and the motion is urged without that heard of any public inconvenience resulting from necessary and preliminary fa& appearing to warrant the present pradlice, •nor of any public benetit from it.. The process in the Courts of Admiralty in prize the alteration, he should not agree to the motion. causes, and in appeal, its very different from what it Mr. BASTARD contended it was the duty of the is in any other of the Courts of his Majesty, and the House to watch and be jealous of every office.. He business of the King's Proaor is peculiar from that hoped, as the Right Hon. Gentleman had said, if the- of any other Officer in that or any-other Court what- Hon. Baronet should carry his motion, that he soccer ; for, from very long experience, it was found should extend his motion .to the office of that Rignr to be a great advantage to the public that hesbould Hon, Gentleman. There were certainly in the Cone- be the arcane of all the .cases of prize litigations; mons many persons who were as well qualified as he has at - a,Niew before him all• that can enable the King's Proalor to condula the business. It .had him to detect frauds, and those more especially been said, the interests of the Navy itself were bet- upon which the judgment of condemnation may ter provided for by the present practice, but the con- Pr may not depend, and upon which that judgment trary the impression universally in the Navy, is generally founded. , These are the advantages ac though most unwarrantable measures were employs : crurng to the public, and no disadvantage of any kind red by the Admiralty to stifle their complaints. He ; :to the public is stated as. a 'reason -for this mo knew the fa& because a petition had been put into tion. Not a single fact has been Mentioned where his hands, complaining of gross abuses, ,and signed delay bad occurred from misconduct or neglect by many of the, most respectable persons in the Na • in the King's Procter's departMent. The principal vy, some of whlein had withdrawn their names iu objection which be had to the motion was, that consequence of having been menaced with the ven- the thing was taken up on the ground that the King's geance of the Admiralty, ar,d he had refused to pre- Proctor ought nut to have the sole influence in the sent the petitiola afterwards, lest he should' draW process et a suit, but that it aught to be under the in down vengeance upon the parties. On these grounds fluence only of the Proctor of the capture For this be should support the Resolutions. reason he objected to it, as the Public Officer was . Mr. FARQUHAR stated, that if a cause extended the only fit and Proper person who sllpuld have the beyond the period , of two years, it must be fletn'the care of it as long 'as the Public :had an interesr, fault of the parties. He then bore testimony to the as they always have, in the event. The • motion,. kespe&ability and integrity 'of the present 'King's if carried, would be produaive of veal inconve Proator, and expressed his surprise that this propo- nience, it would even be prejudicial to captors, and aition should have come from any persdn euutiented hurtful to the interests of the •Countre. Before . the With the Navy. , • - Laster vacation a this year,. all the prize appeals, 'Mr. G. Jon sseoee supported. t 1 e' of the set down for hearing Wine'. the summer vacation ef Honourable Baronet, both because Tined formerly last year, were disposed of'; therefore suitors had no concurred in a similar motion made by the Henotir- right to complain of delay.. They were clispesed of able Baronet, and the mass of business in the King's ' with .as much speed as were any other suits in any ProCtor's Office was so great as to exceed the pow- . other. Courts of Supqrinr jurisdiction. Haddlis Ma ers of any, individual. He was of opinion that no- jesty's Ministers ventured to protect such a measure, thing would SO ellestually tend to re-establish the and to submit it to that House, they would be i t o. charadter of tins country on the Continent as a re- .mediately. accused of jobbing, at increasing pe vision of the whole system of the laWieteepenling the tronage, and of adding to the bunt - ices of the cburi. proceedings upon Prizes in Prize .Cotirti: try, at a time when' the; country could badly b e a r The Sammy& GENERAL contendet , thet multi- them. He should certainly oppose the motion. • - 'plying the number of Proctors would not diminish Sir SAMUEL `ROMILLY spoke in explanation, as the number of appeals. He opposed the motion, as did the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who re. , introducing a novelty, which had fOrtnerly been minded the House, that in all prize causes the King, brought forward to the *attention of the'House, and and not the captor, is the first in consideration e and then rejeaed. lie contended that the Crown had therefore it is that the public Officer was the only tit the sole right to prosecute prior to condemnation to person to conduit the cause. , the captor ;it had the vie command of the suit, . Mr. BAsmatisaid a few words in explanation also. and might employ what officer it pleased for that- Mr. WitlnuAre supported the motion.. purpose. The nature of the suit had necessarily left Sir CHARLES PoLa, in reply, merely stated, that the prosecution of it •in the Crown; beaides, no there were prize causes hang up in the Court at Ap single instance of delay haufbeen mentioned in order peal, to his knowledge, upwards of ten years, and m •to induce the House to accede to thi s mo ti on , an d a gre a t ma ny f ro three to • sever' year s . He in on all these grounds it should meeehie decided up- stanced the case of the Walsingliain Packet, which position. bad been so long in suit, that even the King's Ad ,Mr. WHITBREAD began with vindicating the vocate, in the Petition praying for a decision, .said Hon. and gallant Admiral who submitted the eno- that the captors were become clamorous.. tion to'the House, and proceeded to observe, that The ADVOCATE GENER#I. explained this, and the he was as useful to the'cause of the Navy in that Housedivided, • House, as he was an ornament to his profession Against the motio i it. . every where. He then ad ver t e d to t h e mot i on, cur Lost by a Majority of. . which he reminded Gentlemen was not. direeted to DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY WITII to ,any other end but' the public good it went • A 14.1E5. neither to encourage patronage, or.to prejudice the • On our return to the gallery, we found the An. individual who held the office of King's Proctor ; it VOCATE GENERAL on his legs, stating the prepriety Was merely an Address to Majesty, th;tt he of enabling his Mejestylo cause the payment of such would be pleased to increase the number of. Prodlors, division of prize money as the troops of his Sicilian without the least disparagement tO'• the feelings o r Majesty were deemed entitled to, who had co-ope chorea& of the respectable Gentle Man who. now rated with the British ,forces, against the cot'' pion fills :hat office. It was allowed by the Hon. and enemy. •He observed, that the best &Tiede to he Learnen Geutleman who spoke last, that great abuses adopted for this purpose would be to have the:money had prevailed in the office of King's Proctor, during advanced bere"to the Minister of that Sovereign re the tenancy of 'the late Proctor. It was on that ac- siding at our Cotirt, to be by him transmitted. to his count that the motion of his Gallant Friend was t . Master for distribution accordingly. Tice Hon. and' More necessary ; for although abuses did . not exist Leafeed Gentleman observed 'that' this would be during the ,official lite of the present ProCtor, yet a accomplished by extending the powers of the 47th auccessor might not have either so , much integrity of the King for that piirpose, and by adding a clausesor so much industry ; therefore the' ii t iGti :),), if car- extending this principle to all other States Co..ope.' t ied, would guard against the etiedta' of rating with us. He glen moved for leave to.bring The Lion. Member a condemned the priocipie as in a Bill to extend the powers of the 47 t h Abe well as the practice that placed the cevieeeee of King, for the payment and distribution 'of prizes the ;mica of all the prize suitors under the iniinedi- money to foreign States and foreign Ships co-one ate controul,of one ; the more especially, when that rating _with British Ships Or British Feorees: one thereby became not onlyy . acquainted with 'th e dered'. case on bath sides, but aaually managed Me case, r The Bill Was then brought in, and read a, first Plaintil and Deendant. This be could net but cries time. Ordered to be read a second time to-morrow, seder e most extraordinary fait, and such as be . STIPENDIARY CURATES' BILL. f .end the utmost difficulty to reconcile to reason or On the motion of the Cueeceteent of the..Ex justice. In plain common sense he would ask, can CHEQU'Ett, the House went into a Cutirmittee on any elan conduct 3000 causes as safely as 'lie can this Bill. ooncluee one third part of that number ? Or are A variety of amendments were moved by' dif there any human powers vested in any otie man ferret Membera, and vine Were Wonted, and capable of the . Herculean tink ? Xs a ell aught it withdrawn ; but the'Comtuittee did notelividaT'un be asserted that one Attorney could conduti all the any. cause. nt the Court of King's Bench. It - reminded 'Mr. THOMSON proposed, that xClaese should. be him of an aim:dote, told of a distinguished foreigner, inserted, direding the Curates as to the number of who sonic years ago lisited this country,-and who, times they should perfbrm Divine Service, as no law somewhat pert !exed at the ex, lanation given him • existed at present on the sebjeet, and severallvors of our constitution, as consisting of the co-estates of thy Clergymen of his acquaintances were willing..to King, Lords; and Comintans, expressed an opinion, preach more frequent than their predec,gssors,obut that the care of that Constitution had better be left., they were restrained by their colleagues from intro to three Gentlemen of honour. So, by, parity of ducing greater hardships than they were accustomed'• reasnoing, the Honourable and Learned Gentle- to bear. man wutlid have the whole man igeusent of this The Soetceroe 7 GEISERAL argued against the its, branch of our political jurisprudence comMitted to sertiou of a Clause to this effect,• but wished the the care of Otte man of honour. He could not avoid times tbr performing Divine Worship to be deter-- 01 1) 1;n% teat the Honourable.and. Learlie,l Member mined and enforced solely by the Bishop, according was ap1,1 1 104, on this 0cc11,106, what h e sometiMes to the Laws of the Church. This Atnendnsent was B a d reeourfie to, that figure in speech vulgarly called .; withdrawn. • a hoax ; but line were, be could assure him that the The • Sinteteee proposed a Clause to be inserted, thing , would nut bear him out the gauze that cov e r- grai ni ng . r e li e f •t o persons against whom an order oit 1.-aft thin enough to reveal it ; on that :night it 'shonld be made by the Bishop, enabling them 't o eps Would not succeed. With respect to the motion, peal againat it to the King in Council,. who:should ' be Conceived that it would not, interfere with the , be at liberty to confirm or reverse the sentence, as Prerogativ that it Will answer might seem best. e.of the-Crown, and w the cads of justice. 14 'aoswer to the observation Sir WILLIAM SCOTT opposed the Clause, en the On the.otlier side of the House, that the'Nevy made ; ground thatlhe 'Members of the Privy Colwell were no appeal to the diva of the mot* before the eve a Come, nor supposed to be conversant iii Eccles House, he would say, that it wait intended have •siastieal LaW, and therefore net likely to give satis. • etittoned on the tob4e(* 4 a 414 'the fetitiOn was Put Ifa pion to the suitors. . • 3S tb i thus oppose to that of Austria, is rendered thorouto ly immaculate by the new race of Nobility which bolts; introduced; or if the despicable dregs of the former noblesse, who have basely attached , Oleo). selves to his cause, are likely to be more virtuous than diode loyal- and patriotic friends of the le. gitimete-Severeign 4-France, who have preferred povirty sod exile to a sacrifice of honour and duty ? .But the Writers who thus contemptuously speak of " inveterate habits" ate not exempt from them, for they have as " inveterate babe of opposing the measures of Administrat?on, upon all occasions, un less their own Patroni are in place; and if the con . duet of Ministers shotild be founded upon the best system ever devised for the happiness and security Of a State s - we doubt not that these Writers will persevere in the " inveterate habit" of impeaching their mo tives and attempting, to counteract their Opera tions. As co the de_..,Agns* of the SbIREAOR ' of / sus- TRIA, or whether he is " disposed to try his streng th again," which the Oppo i lition , Writers seem to doubt, it is certain that a more 'favourable orPor" tunity has not occurred for a long time for ati elt 6 it against the Tyrant of France. Turkey is .evidently alarmed ; Russia cannot but : dread the ruiw l9 fkiendship . of such a man, after his Vestment of Spain ; Denmark has reason to apprehend impen 4- ing ruin ; and there is hardly a Cohtinental State' whether favoured or not by BUONAPARTE , 'does trot -.behold him • with terror, and wPula anxious to join in any measure that would hold forth a promise of deliverance from the .in science, the rapacity, and the oppression of FPO . Holland never can be reconciled td the Government air 'Monarch which violates all their " Mysteries habits" of republicanism, .and it is not to be sq' posed that the other States which have. been an: pelled to bear the Sovereignty of a race of Kings a" Princes taken from the refuse of society, do riot pant for an opportunity of throwing otisuch,cljgrir till bondage. — We therefOr e do nal syMpaibise the tur.lancholy► forebodings of the f)pposition, but • shol indulge a hope that the noble example uf ilui Hull spread a patriotic_ inipulse nv . er.uooStategf ultimately eflea the deliverance of Europe. • MAILS— . AR R IVED— t Dublin, 1 Waterford. Duz...it Gottenbnigh, 1 Waterford.. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVI O'CLOCK. .• CORSO'S - 70 fl Red. Ann. . 681 Otnnium ff :4 THE SUN. 1101.1114 QUIZ DICIRL II ALSUM AUDILAT ? L 0 ND 0 V, WEDNF:SDAY, JUNE 15, 1808. Government had not received any Intelligence-. from Spain when this Paper was put to Press. If any authentic accounts should arrive in the course of the afternoon, we shall not lose a moment in commuuicating then to the public. Lieut.-Col. JOHNSON, of the 28th Regittuult, w"' is just arrived in town . frimi Sweden, hi ings wow:: that the Expedition under Sir JOHN MOORS is L;.vail`.4. at anchor in Flemish Roads, . off Gottenburgki tti had not moved on the 7th inst... The Troolg t it t; in general healthy, and to prevent any inconYen'tt. arising from their con fi nement on board WO , 6 talirin is landed daily, fur the purpose of ett ercise. , Colonel Muatxmr hod not arrived when the Ilack° ' left Gottenburgti on the 7th. . . Monday, his Ma..rsitry :.rode on • horseback 'l t ' Windsor Palk, accompanied by .the PitOtess as ' and several attendants. In the evening,' the Rah, FAMILY walked on the Terrace, for the f rst li ce " this season. There were present, their Masslt4,6! the ti vet PRINCESSES, accompanied by Earl vesz,,ro:‘, the Marchioness, of BATH and daughter , die c"6" ten Of H A RRINGTON, Ladies Q. WAL,DSORAVE' Btrtmet.sy, and A. Cutest KL 4 AND, Count Mtlol lit ' Generals GAarn and Fetzacet, and Colonell'.ol,si The bands of the Stptiord Militia. and the 1 1 1 4 1 Horse Guards, with their silver druMs, and played alternately martial and other music. The Terrace was , very. full on Sunday eves* ' but none of the ROYAL FAtett.2 were Prefient• _ i s i Saturday morning the 13 k of -14.. e KIINT 'a rrirc7_,A 43rat Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, and teVig wv ; the young Gentlemen of the Military AcsidenT i The young heroes went t h fc ;i ll ib t h e ir evolutto. intact .0 highly to the satisfaation of His &PI H i g lines4 4 Yesterday the Duke of Yon hem a Puolie 07 • his Office in the liorse,Guards. A OP The first Regiment of , Dragoon GVIII.-s,i' c ad ii , amided by Sir Wtta.t.tm PITT, were Tevie w r, 4 : .teHoy morning on Wimbledon Cotnmon. . 4 8 ; 1 1 1 )' on pe ta a ,n r oi a ben nce rthoi an sfoc d .mc c ae of o. d o u, To • thel o e f ro ti l iis th :xtictilellsetnitniCiiropys saffpc°Bo3:l, cies ever . witnessed .in the evolulious of do e‘t ri t place, in six squadrons, anrndaantLtteurwvraertiino tltlweelti:: - the review commenced at eleven o'clock , an, d ee o f concluded by ten minutesafter ode. The P rin- d a WALES, the Mikes of Y.ortic. an d C A MS/UDC El " fl great mpyGeneral Officers, were }it - cont. s , VA The. Cork Paper oldie Bth instant says-- we Expedition preparing to sail from this liarboaotb, understand, is composed of the . _t 11, gth, 38 „ ti t ta d OW i I St, .apd gist Regiments of Rigu.the4lll--ir,„"- It - et lhir VOtti; • and 4th Aoyal Veteran Baltibw - ;'zil' is to be commanded by Afajor-General Hl"' pp* hint and experienced Officer, under whoui Pre ~ pointed Brigadier-Generals FAKE and CAALITVD" 1 110 0 " arscP:rmliaaTeClL'tot--11o84ulnItsely.thInecreaXVseldlitthhe, ::h il e i da i d g ' t nti li t l ' ; sent at Gosfield, but 'is shortly expettea;,' D I V stead, on a vicit to the Prince of CONDO. ;a D'Alltout.Ems is gone tci Mitten, in Cou4iith, order to conduct the wife of Loulf then 1 100 *to this Country. and 'Madame RoYAt.e, his own wife, tl forar irate Princesses are to arrive here, un nts ill' iervene to . prevent ir, in August. Tl'''- ia9 lt t foy o f Those distieguished artu of FRANCE who ever visited England, was " . A gi v Medicis, under CHARLES the First, in , 1641 : t bat l mall still more severely persecuted by orm"; . JO the person so calling herself at this, time. , 1 '• ...., Princes` of Fwho set he r foot in this .coutil'i price r ON L EA ' a was HENIiETTA MARIA, MOOS o• e o v sister of CHARLES the Second, cain ! _ or , where an , '" o r from France to Porer, Au 1070, She died it li if no.accideatleen vißw took place' between them. crifnelY after her return to St. Cloud, of pois°'• , h 0 ,111 .. .. : - On Saturday an order was received bi teats' tJ missioners for the prisoners o f War, ril..Gthscitil64l 'liberate the whole of the Spanish prisoC' cc ' • aitlottp4 the Ships at that Port. . 1 , The Mercury, WILLtAms, and the Kingsmill, I W xt)E; , are arrived at Liverpool, from Barbadoes, which place they left on the 1 ath ult. when it was reported that His Majesty's Brig Express had" 44 sick engagement with two French Brigs, each: of equal force, during which she raptured one of them, but had suffered severely herself. His Majesty's Ship 'Halifax', with the Fleet under her convoy, which sailed from Cork on the ^r:l of March, arrived at Barbadoes on the 7th of May. The Lady 4ratella Packet arrived there on the .Vsitt of April, from Falmouth, and sailed qa the 28th to Leeward. The Jean Jack, from Bonrdeaux for Guadaloape, is captured to windward of Desada i by His Majesty's Ship ilfasa`mbique, ,after an aotion of twu hours. The Henrietta, KBARSLY, is arrived at Whitby, from Greenland. (a full ship) she left the country on the 22d ,of May. The Iphigenia, of Hull, was lost going into the ice. THE Opposition Writers tell us, that though the E M PEROR of ,AUSTBIA is augmenting his Armies, and has been: endeavouring to put them upon the, best footing,' . ever since the Peace,of Presburgh, aisd that indeed he has been, indefatigable in his e"ker-' Lions on this: imporsant point, yet that they hite : very little hope frotti - that quarter; for, say their,. experience has shown us how feeble are the et-!' - ' forts of a Corrupt Court, in a struggle with Buosa- T A IITE." Why those Writers should suppose ..that . the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA has not been equally soli citous to do all. in his power to lessen whatever cof-, ruption Might exist in his Court, as well as to im p-rove his Armies, •it would beditlieolt to. suppose, cf 'their prejudice against all established Govein'• ments 'were not notorious.. But to manifest this prejudice, if there could be any doubts on the sub je&, they farther say, that BuotlArAnta " has no ?thing to dread from the dotage of inveterate habits;" by which they obviously mean, all attachment to those Governments which have been sanctioned by time and experience. • But has' BUORAPARTE .no " inveterate habits ?" Has he not the inveterate habit of an ambition which nothing can -satisfy ? Has he not the " inveterate habit" of effeaing the ruin of those by treachery, who have submitted implicitly to his will, and consequently have otl'ered no'provoc ation to his resentment ? Has he not the • ")nveterato habit" of attempting, by all possible means, to accomplish the ruin of this Country, and will nut that " inveterate habit" cling to him through life; and in peace or war be the predominant im pulse of ,his heart ? We beg leave to ask the Oppo-" silion Writers, whether they think none but the Courts of ancient Governf4PEa are corrupt, and if they think that BooNAmaptia Court, which titer: Lord Poncttema said it would be an ancmilly in legislation to pont such an exorbitant jurisdiflion to the Bishops as they would possesi tinder the 13111, if - no resort could be had against their decisions.— That some Court of Appeal shoiildexiit be presum ed no man would deny, and he could not suggest a better, or any more likely to give satisfaaiou, than his Majesty in Council, whom the Constitution back made the Head of the Church; and-therefore-tbe . authority to whom the supreme appellant jurisdic tion in Ecclesiastical matters properly belong-W. Mr. WrunnAne-said, he felt the force of the ob jeaions stated by Sir William Scott ; but as the Learned Gentleman had not informed the Commit tee of any other tribunal to whom the authority be longed, he should vote for the Clause. Lord HENRY PETTY supported the Clause The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opposed it, because it would occasion great trouble and expence, to the par ties, who were generally men in very indifferent cir cumitances of life. A rich man would be ectabled to harass and ruin a poor man in going through a suit of this nature. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Mid, the Bill provided against such a6ts of oppression as bad been apprehended by the Solicitor-General, as the ,patty appealing was required to enter into s feast nizance in a considerable sum of money, which was to be' disposed of at the .termination of the suit as might be ordered by the appellant jurisdiction. He then proposed a Clause of his own, whereby Delo'. woes or Commissioners should he appointed by the King, by, a warrant under the Great Seal,wbo islioald have. authority to make such decisions as should be conclusive in all appeals that should come before them. The SPEAKER withdrew his Clause, and Mr. Pr. CI:VACS Amendment was adopted. The remaining Clauses of the Bill were then dis cussed, several new Clauses added, and the Report ordered to he received this day. of int Car r alsi: 1 2 4, ate sig n be a bar s of C for t ; but Teti' the, niin ( ci ti) , itTi c , . . 0